time will tell UG.

Or Bruce will. But I think this one is more over the top than what Bruce normally does. Funny how much it sounds like something LJ would write -- if he thought that way.

if he thought what way?

If LJ's views on genocides were "get over it, you people." Some are willing to ascribe infinite prickishness to LordJim, but I'm not yet convinced.

Wrong, they should get over it.... 9-11 too.
Adjust policy and actions to prevent recurrences, but the wailing and gnashing of teeth, is not productive.
The, Oh dear, pity poor me, generations later, is bullshit.... as terrible as it was, unless it happened to you, and maybe even if it did, move on.

I think Dick CHeney has said that if there's a 1% chance of the US being attacked again, we should take action - including ignoring the constitutional rights of US citizens.

Do we still observe Armistice Day?

We can't keep observing old attrocoities. We have to make room to observe the genocide of the Tutsis and Darforians/ites! :right:

I really like the fact that tw has not posted in this thread yet. It amuses me.

Well, the Jewish folks seem to want us to remember. I think that's why there's all those holocaust memorials, etc. "Lest we forget" doesn't seem to have had much of an impact, though, what with Cambodia's Killing Fields, Sri Lanka, the "disappeared" of Argentina, the awful civil war in Rwanda - on and sadly on.

I think what we should remember and try to change if we can is man's inhumanity to man. Sadly, there will always be ethnic conflicts. Maybe someday, enough people will finally get the idea that its not nice to kill or torture one another based on ethnicity or race or creed. I know, I'm a hopeless dreamer. But someday maybe?

You say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one...

What about sierra leon and other diamond countries in Africa?

I watched a doco on this last night and although I knew what happened/s there is attrocious, it still makes me sick when I see things like that again.

I want to know why the US doesn't step into those situations. If they want to go and make Iraq free, why can't they go and make sierra leon free? What's the difference? The RUF are just as much terrorists as AQ or any of the rest.

Someone, please tell me what the fucking difference is before I blow a gasket.

Maybe we need to throw in the following words:

Israel
Bush
Economist
dichead
Sharon
MBA

Why the fuck doesn't Australia step in and do something about it?

We weren't the ones that ran off to liberate Iraq although we were pretty quick to jump on the bandwagon. I'm sure we'd do the same again...and will continue to do so in the future, and in this case, I would support the move because I would consider it to be more altruistic although I'm sure there'd be some profit in there.

Did you know that Angola (another conflict diamond nation) is one of the richest countries in the world as far as natural resources go? Why not save them? I'm sure there'd be benefits.

However, the question I asked was, what's the difference? Can you tell me that?

We don't need no stinkin' diamonds.